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ERIC Number: EJ611425
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-6001
Child Language Attrition: A Longitudinal Case Study.
Tomiyama, Machiko
Applied Linguistics, v21 n3 p304-32 Sep 2000
Examines the second stage of natural second language attrition in the first language environment observed in a Japanese male returnee child. The subject spent 7 years in the United States, was 8-years-old when he returned, and was highly proficient in English. The second stage is characterized by a period of change in syntax and morphology, structural change in modification of nouns, and some attrition in morphology. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Skill Attrition, Longitudinal Studies, Males, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reference Materials - Vocabularies/Classifications
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Language: English
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